The Internet's most broken protocol

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The White House recently unveiled a plan to deal with networking weaknesses in the Border Gateway Protocol. In the past, the BGP has been exploited or misconfigured to cause massive disruptions on the Internet.

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BGP roadmap https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/09/03/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-roadmap-to-enhance-internet-routing-security/

CrowdStrike Disaster https://youtu.be/H9RSeDUdkCA
Rabbit R1 Hack https://youtu.be/lkbV8oP-F44

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🔖 Topics Covered

- Biggest Internet outages in history
- What is the Border Gateway Protocol?
- Major weaknesses on the internet
- How are networks kept secure?
- Cryptographic security in networking